About Tourist Taxes

Tourist Taxes sets out what visitors pay in tourist taxes and visitor levies around the world: how much, on what, who is exempt and who collects it. It began with the UK's new visitor levies (Edinburgh from July 2026, Wales from 2027, England's mayors next), which leave travellers and hosts asking the same questions, and it covers the European and long-haul taxes that UK travellers meet most.

Each place's figures come from the council, government or tax authority that sets them. Where no official page was available we used reputable news reporting and say so on the page. Every place page lists its sources and the date we last checked them, and the calculator uses exactly the same figures.

We're independent. We aren't a council, a tax authority or a booking site, and nobody pays us to include a place or describe it in a particular way.

Who publishes this site

Tourist Taxes is published by Bonkeno Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales (company no. 10303754). You can check the company on Companies House.

How we work

Every figure on this site comes from a source we link to: the maker, the regulator, the government or published research or reviews. We check pages regularly, and each page shows the date it was last updated. If you spot something wrong or out of date, email hello@touristtaxes.com and we'll fix it.

We don't accept payment to change what we say about a product, and we never claim to have tested something we haven't.